Today’s Match Details – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Match -38 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 28, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT |20:00 IST
Venue – Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Toss – Kolkata Knight Riders elected to bat
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 47 runs

——————————————————————————————————–

Today’s Match Details – Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab
Match -37 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 28, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Toss – Kings XI Punjab elected to bat first
Result – Kings XI Punjab won by 7 runs

Today in the 37th match of DLF IPL 2012, Kings XI Punjab won the toss and elected to bat first. Mandeep Singh and Shaun Marsh opened the innings for them and gave them a solid 68 runs first wicket stand in just 8.1 overs. Marsh was the first breakthrough for Chennai and came as a run out. Azhar Mahmood then played some good shots and scored 18 runs off 12 balls before getting out. At the end of 12 overs, KXIP were placed at 97/2 and it looked they will post a big total, but superb come back by CSK bowlers brought CSK back in game. In the 16th over, D Miller got out when the team score was 127. It was this wicket which led to a series of wickets for Chennai as Kings lost 5 quick wickets and were restricted to 156/8 in 20 overs.

Chasing 157 to win, Chennai got off to a good start with Faf du Plessis and S Badrinath adding 47 runs in just 5.3 overs. Faf du Plessis was the first to fall after scoring 29 runs off 20 balls. In the 8th over, Mahmood striked again and got the wicket of S Badrinath. Suresh Raina once again failed and CSK were struggling at 71/3 in 10.2 overs. Kings XI Bowlers were well complemented by the fielders and run scoring was made really difficult for CSK. The pressure of increasing run rate was getting on to the nerves of CSK batsmen and a twin blow in the form of W Saha and MS Dhoni left them struggling at 88/5 in 13.2 overs. CSK were depending on Jadeja but the most expensive played failed to deliver and was out after scoring just 17 runs. CSK were struggling at 98/6 in 15 overs and needed 59 to win from last 5 overs. D Bravo played some good shots for his 21 ball 30runs and the match was all set for a last over finish. Finally it was KXIP which hold on to their nerves and won the match by 7 runs.

Match 37 IPL 2012 Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab Scorecard

Today’s Match Details – Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab
Match -37 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 28, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Toss – Kings XI Punjab elected to bat first
Result – Kings XI Punjab won by 7 runs

———————————————————————————————————

Today’s Match Details – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Match -38 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 28, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT |20:00 IST
Venue – Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Today in the 38th match of DLF IPL 2012, Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore. The previous match of both teams was washed out due to rain and thus both the teams will be looking forward for a win to continue their winning momentum. RCB will also be eying revenge of their 42 runs beating at the hands of KKR earlier in this season.

Kolkata Knight Riders biggest concern would be Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers. These two players have made every target achievable with their explosive batting. On the other hand RCB will need special plans to play Sunil Narine of KKR who has been a very consistent and economical bowler.

As per IPL Stats, RCB has won 5 out 9 matches played so far and thus KKR will be hoping to make it 5-5 today.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad IPL 2012
Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary, Mohammad Kaif, Rilee Rossouw, KP Appanna, Arun Karthik, Karun Nair, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mayank Agarwal, Harshal Patel, Vijay Zol, S Thiyagarajan, Dirk Nannes, Zaheer Khan, Charl Langeveldt, Vinay Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Muttiah Muralitharan, Asad Pathan, Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad, Sreenath Aravind, Abrar Kazi, Chris Gayle, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Andrew McDonald, Daniel Vettori (Captain), Ryan Ninan, Raju Bhatkal, AB de Villiers, Muralidharen Gautam, Luke Pomersbach.

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad IPL 2012
Gautam Gambhir(Captain), Marchant de Lange, Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, Manoj Tiwary, Debabrata Das, Chirag Jani, Sanju Samson, Iresh Saxena, Brett Lee, James Pattinson, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Pradeep Sangwan, Shami Ahmed, Sarabjit Ladda, Jaydev Unadkat, Jacques Kallis, Yusuf Pathan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Laxmi Shukla, Rajat Bhatia, Shakib Al Hasan, Iqbal Abdulla, Brendon McCullum, Brad Haddin, Manvinder Bisla.

Don’t forget to bookmark iplcricketlive.com and catch all the latest news, scorecards, match analysis and previews of DLF IPL 2012.

Today’s Match Details – Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab
Match -37 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 28, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Today in the 37th match of DLF IPL 2012, defending champions Chennai Super Kings will take on Kings XI Punjab at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk. Chennai whose last match against RCB was abandoned due to rain will be looking forward for this match to move up the points table. Currently they are in the top four teams in points table and a win today will take them to number 2 just after Delhi Daredevils.

On the other hand, Kings XI Punjab will be missing Gilchrist in this match. Stand in captain Hussey will lead the Punjab charge against the formidable Chennai. Both teams have played below par cricket so far in this league. CSK biggest worry is the lack of wicket taking bowlers and poor form of Suresh Raina. Faf du Plessis is the only batsmen who had played consistently so far for CSK in this season. Kings XI Punjab’s biggest hopes are Shaun Marsh, David Hussey in the batting department and sensational Parvinder Awana and Piyush Chawla in the bowling department.

As per IPL stats, CSK has won 6 out of 8 matches between the two teams and are thus looking favorites for today’s game.

Chennai Super Kings Squad IPL 2012
Murali Vijay, Suresh Raina, Michael Hussey, George Bailey, Albie Morkel, Kuthethurshri Vasudevadas, Srikkanth Anirudha, Subramaniam Badrinath, Abhinav Mukund, Doug Bollinger, Ben Hilfenhaus, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shadab Jakati, Suraj Randiv, Sudeep Tyagi, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Scott Styris, Faf du Plessis, Joginder Sharma, Yo Mahesh, Ganapathi Vignesh, MS Dhoni(captain/keeper), Wriddhiman Saha.

Kings XI Punjab Squad IPL 2012
Shaun Marsh, Sunny Singh, David Miller, Paul Valthaty, Azhar Mahmood, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Paras Dogra, Parvinder Awana, Siddharth Chitnis, James Faulkner, Ramesh Powar, Nitin Saini, Stuart Broad, Praveen Kumar, Ryan Harris, Nathan Rimmington, Love Ablish, Harmeet Singh, Bhargav Bhatt, Vikramjeet Malik, Shalabh Srivastava, Bipul Sharma, Piyush Chawla, Mandeep Singh, Rajagopal Sathish, Amit Yadav and Adam Gilchrist (captain).

Don’t forget to bookmark iplcricketlive.com and catch all the latest news, scorecards, match analysis and previews of DLF IPL 2012.